Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category
The world will soon run out of Internet addresses as the number of devices connected to the Web explodes unless organisations move to a new Internet Protocol version, the head of the body that allocates IP addresses said. Rod Beckstrom, chief executive of ICANN, said only 8 or 9 percent of ipv4 addresses were left, and companies needed to switch to the new standard of ipv6 as quickly as possible. “We are running out,” he told Reuters in an interview. +Continue Reading
After a lot of rumors that Firefox will be made available to the Android users, the browser has been officially launched for the Nokia’s Maemo platform, specially for the N900.
Some of the Firefox mobile features includes, Weave Sync to Sync bookmarks, history and passwords from desktop, Add-ons to add games and news reader to your browser, Location aware browsing, tabbed browsing and safe browsing.
The Firefox will the first mobile web browser to support the following add-ons: AdBlock Plus, URL Fixer, TwitterBar, language translators and geo guides. +Continue Reading
Google India and IPL has entered into agreement under which google will be broadcasting all the actions of the IPL season 3 in dedicated IPL channel online. User can catch the live action from www.youtube.com/ipl .
According to the agreement Google will be having an exclusive online rights for IPL content for 2 year and both Google and IPL will share the revenues generated from sponsorships and advertising.
It will be the first when when Google will broadcast such a big cricket event live: A tournament spanning for 45 days with 60 matches. +Continue Reading
Bollywood King Shahrukh Khan has also joined twitter and to our surprise it has got 11,000 follower in the first day only. Twitter has been alot popular among Indian celebrities and to it crown one more king had joined it.
Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai, Priyanka Chopra and Mallika Sherawat are the Bollywood stars on Twitter but Khan is set to be the most popular Tweeter. +Continue Reading
India’s First adult comic Savita Bhabhi which is published on savitabhabhi.com is now back again. The Indian goverment has ordered all ISPs to block the site in june 2009.
Defying all this Savita Bhabhi, a voluptuous, sari-clad, 29-year old character and India’s first only toon porn site surfaced, in March 2008, obviously becoming a huge hit with almost 2,00,000 hits a day. +Continue Reading
Pre-paid mobile phones are set to ring again in Jammu and Kashmir with the central government deciding to allow the service’s resumption in the first week of next month.
A senior state government official Wednesday told IANS the decision to withdraw the
two-month ban on pre-paid mobile phones was taken in New Delhi at a high-level meeting chaired by union home secretary G.K. Pillai early this week.
The meeting was attended by senior state government officers, including chief secretary S.S. Kapoor and state intelligence chief K. Rajendra.
“The ban is being lifted in the first week of next month and by that time the various service providers will have foolproof verification mechanism in place in the state,” the officer said.
“Strict instructions have been issued to the various mobile companies operating in the state to ensure proper verification mechanism to check the antecedents of the new and old service users,” he added.
“The service will resume in the first week of January,” the officer said.
The central government had banned pre-paid mobile phones in the state on security grounds from Nov 1, but the move had evoked severe criticism from various political parties, including the state’s ruling National Conference.
The ban had affected nearly four million pre-paid mobile users in the state and thousands of youth involved in the business here.
Google said it will hold a briefing about its smartphone business at its headquarters next week as rumors continue to swirl that the Internet search giant is preparing to sell a Google-branded device.
The company emailed invitations to the Jan. 5 event, which it described only as “an Android press gathering,” to the media on Tuesday. Google’s free Android software is currently used as the operating system on more than a dozen smartphones from vendors including Motorola Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd. Android phones, +Continue Reading
Upholding patent-infringement charges by a small Toronto firm against Microsoft Tuesday, a US appeals court ordered the software giant to stop selling Word by Jan 11 and pay $290 million in damages.
Microsoft said it will introduce the copies of Word 2007 and Office 2007 without the offending technology by the court-ordered deadline. Tuesday’s ruling upholds an earlier injunction against Microsoft that banned the technology giant from selling Word. +Continue Reading
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has recently announced the adoption of Bluetooth low energy wireless technology, which is the hallmark feature of the Bluetooth Core Specification Version 4.0. As an enhancement to the specification, Bluetooth low energy technology opens entirely new markets for devices requiring low cost and low power wireless connectivity with this evolution in Bluetooth wireless technology that will enable a plethora of new applications. Many markets such as healthcare, sports and fitness, security, and home entertainment will be enhanced with the availability of small coin-cell battery powered wireless products and sensors now enabled by Bluetooth wireless technology. +Continue Reading
Intel Corporation has announced new Intel Atom processors that feature integrated graphics built directly into the CPU, enabling improved performance and smaller, more energy-efficient designs in a new generation of netbooks and Atom-based entry level desktop PCs.
Major OEMs have committed to having systems on the new Intel Atom processors and a new companion chipset available within the next few weeks. +Continue Reading
